they know what you are doing

[space otter]

i can't tell you how happy i am to be old and retired

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/the-employer-surveillance-state/ar-BBOph5p?li=BBnbfcN

The employer surveillance state
Ellen Ruppel Shell  1 day ago

The more bosses try to keep track of their workers, the more precious time employees waste trying to evade them.

Jason Edward Harrington spent six years working the luggage-screening checkpoint at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. A college graduate and freelance writer, he initially took the job as a stopgap, but found that he enjoyed meeting passengers from all over the world, some of whom showed a real interest in him. While working for TSA, though, Harrington noticed his bosses following and video-recording his every move, a practice they said was at least in part for his protection: If, perchance, a traveler's iPad went missing, the videotapes would prove that Harrington was not to blame. Harrington was on board with that. His problem, he told me, was that supervisors would also view the tapes to search for the slightest infraction—anything from gum-chewing to unauthorized trips to the bathroom. Eventually, these intrusions led him to quit. "If they trusted us, respected us, you could really enjoy the job," Harrington told me. "But they didn't."

A TSA spokesman, Michael McCarthy, acknowledged the agency's use of surveillance, though he attributed the "fairly rapid" turnover rate of TSA baggage screeners to other factors, in particular, to "low pay and high stress." In fact, electronic surveillance of employees, through technologies including not just video cameras but also monitoring software, has grown rapidly across all industries.
Randolph Lewis, a professor of American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Under Surveillance, Being Watched in Modern America, pointed to software that makes it possible for employers to monitor employee facial expressions and tone of voice to gauge their emotional states, such as rage or frustration. Among more conventional surveillance methods, employers can track employees' website visits, and keep tabs on their employees' keystrokes.

Employers can also monitor employees' personal blogs, and read their social-networking profiles. In one case in California, a sales executive at a money-transfer firm sued her employer, claiming she had been fired for disabling an app that used employer-issued cell phones to track workers via GPS, even when they were off the clock. (The suit was later settled out of court.)
The proliferation of surveillance is due, at least in part, to the rising sophistication and declining cost of spy technology: Employers monitor workers because they can. Michel Anteby, a Boston University sociologist and business scholar who has watched how monitoring impacts employees at the TSA and other workplaces, has also noticed that the more employees are surveyed, the harder they try to avoid being watched, and the harder management tries to watch them. "Most TSA workers we observed do everything possible to stay under the radar, to essentially disappear," he said. "They try to never speak up, never stick out, do nothing that might get noticed by management," he said. "This leads to a vicious cycle, whereby management grows more suspicious and feels justified in ratcheting up the surveillance."

Perhaps the most common argument for surveillance—one often deployed by firms that make employee-monitoring products—is that it can make workers more productive. Purveyors of monitoring software claim they can help managers reduce the number of wasted hours and ensure that employees make better use of their time.

A Boston-based technology company called Humanyze applies what it calls "moneyball for business." The term "moneyball" originated in Michael Lewis's best-seller about the Oakland Athletics baseball team and its general manager, Billy Beane, who used statistics to assemble a team of particularly gifted ball players. Humanyze gathers data by fitting employee ID badges with a microphone, location sensors, and an accelerometer, to tease out patterns of employee behavior that affect a company's performance. At one office, Humanyze's data suggested that more frequent employee interactions improve productivity, so the employer installed larger, more central coffee stations to encourage those interactions.

In his essay "In Praise of Electronically Monitoring Employees," the MIT researcher Andrew McAfee describes a study of surveillance he conducted in collaboration with colleagues at Washington University in St. Louis and Brigham Young University. Using theft-detection software, the researchers monitored waitstaff (with their knowledge), at 392 casual-dining restaurants in the United States. The installation of the software correlated with a reduction in employee theft by less than $25 a week for each location—not a whole lot. What was significant was that revenue grew by $2,975 a week per location—nearly $1,000 from drink orders alone. Employee's tips also grew, and this, McAfee writes, suggests a "win-win." He speculates: "As far as we can tell, performance improved simply because people started doing their jobs better." Perhaps once the "bad actors" understood they were being watched, they realized their best bet for making more money was to improve their service in hopes of garnering larger tips, McAfee speculates—and that good behavior caught on among other employees, too.

The proposition that job performance improves when employees are monitored, and thereby theoretically deprived of the opportunity to steal, is not a hopeful one. An equally plausible explanation for the growth in revenue at the restaurants McAfee observed is that installing spy software was part of a larger commitment on the part of management to organize and streamline operations. Anteby notes, "It's possible that almost any change—even changing the lighting—would have prompted a similar increase in productivity." It's also possible that surveilled employees felt pressured to push customers to order more—a practice that is not necessarily good for business in the long run, as few of us enjoy feeling pressured to over-consume.

In general, studies of surveillance suggest that it can increase workplace stress, promote worker alienation, lower job satisfaction, and convey the perception that the quantity of work one generates is more important than its quality.In an analysis aptly titled "Watching Me Watching You," the British anthropologists Michael Fischer and Sally Applin conclude that workplace surveillance creates "a culture where ... people more often alter their behavior to suit machines and work with them, rather than the other way around," and that this tends to erode their sense of "agency." That is, the constant surveillance of employees diminishes their capacity to operate as independent thinkers and actors.

Worse yet, somestudies suggest that workers who sense they are monitored have lower self-esteem and are actually less productive. In fact, Anteby told me, those of us who do "cheat" on the job often do so in retaliation for the very lack of trust surveillance implies: For example, some TSA employees he observed wasted countless hours finding clever ways to evade the surveillance camera's roving eye. So while surveillance can be of benefit under some conditions, it's unclear precisely what those conditions might be—or whether there are limits.

[ArMaP]

In Portugal, it's illegal to have cameras pointing to the workers showing them during their normal work, and even for common security cameras a special license is needed.

[space otter]

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amazon-ice-facial-recognition-rekognition-software_us_5bcf5d73e4b055bc9485733f


Amazon Pitched Its Controversial Facial Recognition Tech To ICE, Emails Show
ICE said it doesn't have a contract with Amazon for "Rekognition," but it has used similar software in the past.

By Ryan Grenoble
10/23/2018 04:29 pm ET

Amazon pushed Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in June to purchase and use its controversial facial recognition technology, according to Amazon Web Services emails obtained by a government watchdog.

Documents turned over in a Freedom of Information Act request by the Project On Government Oversight show Amazon's technology subsidiary offered up its real-time "Rekognition" video analytics software to aid ICE's Homeland Security Investigations.

Amazon touts the technology on its website as capable of providing "real-time face recognition across tens of millions of faces, and detection of up to 100 faces in challenging crowded photos."

Amazon Web Services and Department of Homeland Security officials also met in mid-June at the Redwood, Calif., offices of McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm that formerly worked with ICE.

It's unclear how, exactly, Amazon proposed the technology be implemented. The email from Amazon Web Services only vaguely refers to "a big HSI problem." Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In an emailed statement to HuffPost, ICE spokesman Matthew Bourke said the agency doesn't currently have a contract with Amazon for Rekognition, but noted it's "fairly standard" for the agency to evaluate how any emerging technology might help its mission.

Bourke confirmed ICE has used facial recognition in the past "to assist during the course of criminal investigations related to fraudulent activities, identity theft and child exploitation crimes."

In May, inspired by an American Civil Liberties Union report on the technology, a group of concerned Amazon employees sent CEO Jeff Bezos a public letter asking that the company stop providing facial recognition services to police departments and other government agencies.

"We already know that in the midst of historic militarization of police, renewed targeting of Black activists, and the growth of a federal deportation force currently engaged in human rights abuses — this will be another powerful tool for the surveillance state, and ultimately serve to harm the most marginalized," the employees wrote.

"Our company should not be in the surveillance business; we should not be in the policing business," they added. "We should not be in the business of supporting those who monitor and oppress marginalized populations."

A follow-up investigation by the ACLU in July found the software has problematic accuracy issues, with false matches disproportionately identifying people of color as known criminals. To illustrate its point, the ACLU used the software to screen members of Congress against a database of 25,000 mugshots; 28 U.S. Representatives were incorrectly flagged as criminal, with the results clearly skewing along racial lines.

"Nearly 40 percent of Rekognition's false matches in our test were of people of color," the ACLU found, "even though they make up only 20 percent of Congress."

[space otter]

the bs seems endless, doesn't it?..

Worried About Facebook Tracking Your Data? A Fake Account Might Help.
When it comes to your personal information online, there's no such thing as "delete."


lots of connecting links are in the article
i'm too lazy to move them all right now



By Casey Bond
11/21/2018 07:01pm ET
https://www.huffpost.chttps://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-much-time-on-social-media_n_5be9c148e4b0783e0a1a8281om/entry/facebook-tracker-selling-data-fake-account_n_5bf454a7e4b0c097a8e08b31?qh3=

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Facebook tracks your personal information and sells it to third-parties, but you can do something about it.
When I joined Facebook in 2005, it had little use beyond sharing my class schedule and cyberstalking ex-boyfriends. Since then, however, Facebook has evolved into a social media behemoth with more than 2.27 billion active users and immeasurable power to collect and spread information.

What's become increasingly apparent is that Facebook isn't always using that power for good. Among the vast sea of cat videos, Cardi B memes and rants by armchair activists, you'll find the more insidious side of Facebook: improper data harvesting, fake news, election meddling, human trafficking.

Not to mention that Facebook is tracking and selling your personal information every minute of the day.

So it's no wonder if you've considered joining the #deletefacebook movement and leaving the platform for good. The only problem is that the social network has become so ubiquitous that you might actually need an account, whether it's for work or to access other online apps and tools.

What can you do? We spoke with Theresa Payton, former White House chief information officer and current chief executive of the security consulting company Fortalice Solutions, about what steps you can take to hide your identity from Facebook.

Creating A Burner Facebook Account
Your first thought might be to create a fake ― or burner ― Facebook account you can use to access the platform anonymously. Though that is a possibility, Payton has a few words of warning.

First, fake profiles have a pretty negative connotation. Users in countries such as Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and the U.S. have successfully created fake personas used to get people upset about social issues or promote hate speech. That's one of the reasons why, according to Facebook's terms and conditions, fake accounts aren't allowed. If you create one, Facebook has a right to shut it down. So keep in mind that if you devote time and energy on creating a burner, you could end up losing it at any time.

However, simply restricting your privacy settings might not feel like enough. "If you feel like, from a privacy perspective, you want to go that extra step and set up a fake persona ― knowing that you're potentially in violation of the terms and conditions ― that can be another added way to give you privacy," Payton said.

Another thing to keep in mind is that even with a burner it's fairly easy for Facebook to figure out who you are.

"If you start putting pictures of yourself on that account, facial recognition technology is going to out you," she said. "If you put your real cellphone number with your fake name, the matching algorithm of your cellphone data is going to out you." Even the device you use to access the platform leaves a digital fingerprint. "When you log in to any of these social media companies, one of the things they do is scoop up your device ID," Payton said. "Your device ID is unique to your device, which is then, through purchasing data, traceable back to you."

But let's say you really take all the precautions to make your burner account completely anonymous. You use a fake address, fake cellphone number, fake photos and even go so far as to not use your smartphone and only access Facebook on an old laptop that you paid cash for. According to Payton, there are still ways you can be identified. The IP address that you log in from, the operating system you use, the make and model of your device and even your browser choice ― all of these data points are collected and correlated.

"We're so far down the path that there's a lot you can do to grab your privacy back, but it will never be complete."

- THERESA PAYTON, CEO OF FORTALICE SOLUTIONS
"Let's say you have a fake account and you often like to surf and shop in a coffee shop," Payton explained. "And you have a rewards program with that coffee shop that really is you. All they have to do is start correlating data between that laptop that belongs to your fake persona and the person who belongs to this loyalty program." Bam ― outed again.

In fact, Payton said a lot of people don't really understand how pervasive the tracking can be on each one of us. "Candidly, we're so far down the path that there's a lot you can do to grab your privacy back, but it will never be complete," she said, likening the situation to trying to put toothpaste back into the tube.

But that doesn't mean all hope is lost. There are steps you can take to protect the data associated with your personal Facebook account without creating a separate burner account.

Don't Give Up Unnecessary Information
Every piece of information you share on your Facebook profile is sold to marketers, no matter how insignificant it might seem. When filling out your profile, don't share details that you don't have to, such as your marital status, political and religious affiliations or location. Even better, use fake information. "There's lots of things that you can do to throw off the data matching that goes on," Payton said. For instance, instead of using your home address, list the address of a local cafe.

Use An Alias
Though creating a full-on fake persona is against the rules, you can be strategic about what name you use for your real profile to throw off data trackers. For example, Payton suggests using a childhood nickname that allows friends to find you but won't match up to marketing databases or purchasing information.

Get A Burner Email And Phone Number
You can easily use other types of burners to your advantage. For instance, Payton suggested creating an email account that you only use for social media. You can also set up a mobile number through a service like Google Voice or Talkatone and have it forwarded to your real cell number.

Switch Up Your Browsing Habits
Payton recommended mixing up the tools you use when surfing the web to throw off social media tracking. For example, don't always use the same search engine ― switch to Bing or give Duck Duck Go a try once in a while. Switch among browsers, such as Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer. You can also consider using the Tor browser. "A lot of people associate it with surfing the dark web, but you can actually use the Tor browser for regular, everyday browsing for additional privacy and anonymity," Payton said.

Install A Privacy Extension
Another added measure you can pursue is installing a privacy browser extension. Payton personally uses Ghostery and Privacy Badger, which are both free and will control ads, block invisible trackers and protect your data while browsing the internet. "In some cases, some sites won't work at all because I have my settings up really high. It's fascinating to see which websites are stopped dead in their tracks," Payton said.

Use A VPN
Though it might sound like you need an engineering degree to install a virtual private network and proxy server program (say that three times fast), it's actually pretty simple. Plus, there are low-cost and even free options.

"You can actually route your traffic so that it's not coming to Facebook and other social media sites from your house," Payton explained. Instead, you can make it look like you're a user in Europe, Asia or Mexico. "They won't be the wiser."

Grab Your Privacy Back
Facebook's ability to track and identify you online is eerily Orwellian. But the good news is that you're not entirely powerless when it comes to protecting your data. Payton says she doesn't want anyone to feel scared by these privacy concerns.

"I want them to be aware. I want them to be engaged and enraged. And I want them to be empowered ... to grab their privacy back."

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[robomont]

i like torturing marcy zookeeper,not killing him.
im a firm believer in trash in trash out.if everybody on the planet searched cockroach while logged into facebook.then marketting will begin to market cockroaches to us.
as everybody should know,marketting cockroaches is not prudent,this would cause fb revenue to collapse.
rather than run from fb,i devise overloading the beast with false intel.

fb is a toy for kids and grandmas,not much of anything else.imho.
as for zookeeper.hes mossad and his wife is chinese spy.no i dont have link!

his company is scheduled for a slow death and twenty years from now will be comparable to findagrave.com!

his chances at president are also nill.i sent his ad department a spill all on him and clearly stated i would ddos fb into oblivion if he tried to run for president.

since then,theres been no more word out of him on doing that.he knows i will.
after i sent him that notification,i then rejoined,a way of being like a dog and marking my territory.lol.

now some may say thats illegal,is not a monopoly illegal?
i would be defending myself and the nation against his dream of a police state and dictatorship.
you can already see this potential in his management style.

the reason for this started months after olbummer came into office.i had 10,000 plus friends worldwide and the best intelligence network in the world.i knew what state dept was gonna do before state new what they were gonna do.

i bragged about this on glp and a month later olbummer had sit down with marcy and jobs.
the friends policy changed a week later.i lost my network that me and wife spent two weeks building.we had rubbed the crome off the buttons of my cellphone friending folks.
thats why i have been able to see the world as it really is.
a mudball with a bunch of chimps fighting king of the hill.and its a very small planet,way smaller than most know.six degrees of seperation,really.
im still able to stay on top the wave because of the knowledge i gained then.
basically its a fight for rare earths.everything else is distractions.bs.

[ArMaP]

I do have several facebook accounts all of them with variations of my real name. I use different browsers for different accounts, and I whenever facebook asks me if I like something or other I always give true answers, but I only answer some of the questions, so facebook's suggestions of what I may like are completely different for my different accounts, for one account I got suggestions of gay groups while in another I got suggestions of groups related to Eastern European countries.

[space otter]

if you didn't already know

Google is an enormous corporation working in a complex world. And though many of its services are free, they are hardly without cost: Google makes 84 percent of its revenue from advertising, which it is able to sell in such enormously high volume because it knows so much about the people who use its products.

entire article here
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/google-chief-faces-lawmakers-concerned-with-silicon-valley-but-often-puzzled-by-technology/ar-BBQPcl1

© Provided by Oath Inc. Google CEO Sundar Pichai appears before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. (Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

WASHINGTON — Two things were clear from Tuesday's testimony of Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc.: Everyone is unhappy with Silicon Valley, though everyone is unhappy for different reasons.

........
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It was created through a corporate restructuring of Google on October 2, 2015, and became the parent company of Google and several former Google subsidiaries. The two founders of Google assumed executive roles in the new company, with Larry Page serving as CEO and Sergey Brin as president.
Alphabet Inc. - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc
Pichai owns 89,727 Class C Capital shares, 85,415 Class C Google shares, and 6,317 Class A Google Shares according to his most recent filing with the SEC on Nov. 26, 2018.



Every division under Google parent company Alphabet: FULL LIST ...
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[fansongecho]

@SpaceOtter 

Hi Kidda', are you following anything to do with Q anon?

I saw this on Weds am UK time -

https://cdn.qmap.pub/images/7db0c8101324227819c05ccacd46c66f0807e2d61e49ef0971a14fd41894afa1.jpg
It must be very nice to hold so much in shares 

https://cdn.qmap.pub/images/8518379c52484bbf3175441d5cc6f0d13349c12e56c745b5bca122165e5a8443.jpg

These can be found at = https://qmap.pub/

It could all be a coincidence of course -    

Cheers

Fans'

PS - how many of you folks use Google ?


https://qmap.pub/

[robomont]

lol,there are ai's/google and then there are AI's/nsa.
i highly suspect the state department is corrupt and the nsa is taking them down a few notches.i suspect Q is AI and google is cia investment.i suspect nsa is fixing to burn the hell out of cia,bigly.trump is gonna grab all that abc cash via the order he signed a few months ago.that ceo is gonna be takin craps in the river of india soon.prayin he dont see gitmo.or worse.
i think the nsa is playin with multiple mice just before the kill.

[robomont]

ill go even further and take a guess,the huawei princess brought us chinas golden fleece of the entire chinese military technology systems.a backdoor into it all.is secretly fleeing china.this tech will be layered into the new foxcon tech at the new usa plant thats being built.
and because im such a braggart.ill tell you who gave trump the idea to bring in foxcon,yours truly: )

[space otter]

robo
as usual i only got one word of that that struck any cord at all and that is the huawei thing..i think that's going to be a nasty stew

[The Seeker]

as usual i only got one word of that that struck any cord at all and that is the huawei thing..i think that's going to be a nasty stew

Otter, could you enlighten me as to what this huawei thing is? It would be appreciated...

[ArMaP]

Otter, could you enlighten me as to what this huawei thing is? It would be appreciated...

I suppose it's about this.

[space otter]

yep Armap that's it

going to stick the info  in the china thread
here
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=8337.0

[space otter]

privacy, you say. ? . not on farce book


Facebook Allowed Some Tech Companies To Read And Delete Users' Private Messages: NYT
Since 2010, the tech giant has reportedly granted over 150 companies deeper access to users' personal data than it has admitted.

By Dominique Mosbergen
BUSINESS 12/19/2018 06:10 am ET Updated 10 hours ago

Facebook reportedly gave some of the world's largest tech companies access to users' personal data, including allowing some firms to read and delete users' private messages and obtain contact information through their friends, without users' knowledge or consent.

The New York Times on Tuesday detailed how Facebook, through data-sharing "business partnerships," shared and traded user data with more than 150 companies, including Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix, Spotify, Yahoo and the Russian search engine Yandex.

These partnerships, the oldest of which dates to 2010 and all of which were active in 2017, "effectively exempt[ed] those business partners" from Facebook's usual privacy rules, the Times reported, citing hundreds of pages of internal Facebook documents.

Microsoft's Bing search engine, for example, was reportedly allowed to see the names of nearly all Facebook users' friends without their consent; Spotify, Netflix and the Royal Bank of Canada were able to read, write and delete users' private messages; and Amazon, Microsoft and Sony could obtain users' contact information through their friends.

Yahoo and Yandex reportedly retained access to Facebook user data even after such access was supposed to have been halted. And Facebook gave Apple the power to see Facebook users' contacts and calendar entries even in cases where users had disabled all data sharing. (Yahoo is owned by Verizon, which also is HuffPost's parent company.)

In all, the data of "hundreds of millions of people" were sought monthly by applications made by these Facebook business partners, according to the Times. Some of these partnerships reportedly remain in effect today.

rest of article at link here:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/facebook-data-sharing-partnerships-privacy_us_5c19de82e4b08db99058dd3a